solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
troops trained to fight on horseback;
provide with a horse or horses
RISE
become more extreme; "The tension heightened"
go up or advance; "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"
exert oneself to meet a challenge; "rise to a challenge"; "rise to the occasion"
become heartened or elated; "Her spirits rose when she heard the good news"
the act of changing location in an upward direction
move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows"
increase in price or value; "the news caused a general advance on the stock market"
move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
the property possessed by a slope or surface that rises
come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
the amount a salary is increased; "he got a 3% raise"; "he got a wage hike"
increase in volume; "
STAGE
a section or portion of a journey or course; "then we embarked on the second stage of our Caribbean cruise"
a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience; "he clambered up onto the stage and got the actors to help him into the box"
a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination
a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns; "we went out of town together by stage about ten or twelve miles"
the theater as a profession (usually `the stage'); "an early movie simply showed a long kiss by two actors of the contemporary stage"
any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something; "All the world's a stage"--Shakespeare; "it set the stage for peaceful negotiations"
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the socia